The Ebonics Bible

This is a discussion on The Ebonics Bible within the A Brief History of Cprogramming.com forums, part of the Community Boards category; I saw this website somewhere:
www.asksnoop.com
And so I decided to go check it out. Well it turns out that ...

This automated translator provides a stereotyped and generalized version of the African-American English Vernacular (that would be the pompous, politically correct name for Ebonics). In truth this is nothing more than a marketing gimick done in poor taste. Linguists can tell you that Ebonics is a real language/dialect with its own grammatical rules that only have a similarity with standard American English.

Minus the "shiznet," "Dogg,"da," and "know what I'm sayin'?" this translator just phoneticizes common pronunciations that are hardly exclusive to Ebonics or any other "lower-class" speech variety.

Originally posted by Unregd This automated translator provides a stereotyped and generalized version of the African-American English Vernacular (that would be the pompous, politically correct name for Ebonics). In truth this is nothing more than a marketing gimick done in poor taste. Linguists can tell you that Ebonics is a real language/dialect with its own grammatical rules that only have a similarity with standard American English.

Minus the "shiznet," "Dogg,"da," and "know what I'm sayin'?" this translator just phoneticizes common pronunciations that are hardly exclusive to Ebonics or any other "lower-class" speech variety.

Originally posted by Unregd This automated translator provides a stereotyped and generalized version of the African-American English Vernacular (that would be the pompous, politically correct name for Ebonics). In truth this is nothing more than a marketing gimick done in poor taste. Linguists can tell you that Ebonics is a real language/dialect with its own grammatical rules that only have a similarity with standard American English.

Minus the "shiznet," "Dogg,"da," and "know what I'm sayin'?" this translator just phoneticizes common pronunciations that are hardly exclusive to Ebonics or any other "lower-class" speech variety.

Umm, no. This translator is based around Snoop Dogg, not around the African-American English Vernacular. I don't think that even you would disagree he has a slightly different way of saying things than most everybody else.

Originally posted by stumon >> Minus the "shiznet," "Dogg,"da," and "know what I'm sayin'?" this translator just phoneticizes common pronunciations that are hardly exclusive to Ebonics or any other "lower-class" speech variety.

I love how people try to "sound" smart and dont even realize something like "phoneticizes" is not a word!

Originally posted by stumon
I love how people try to "sound" smart and dont even realize something like "phoneticizes" is not a word![/b]

Sure it is. If it was not a word, I would not have been able to type it. It may not appear in a dictionary, but does it follow the regular pattern { adjective + -[ize] -> verb }. If people always stuck to the words already in well-known dictionaries, the language would never change and be able to express new ideas or be able to express common ideas more effectively.

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